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Hopkins Holds Towson to One Goal

from press release

TOWSON, Md. -- The Johns Hopkins women's
lacrosse team held host Towson to just one goal as the Blue Jays
beat the Tigers, 10-1, at Johnny Unitas Stadium Wednesday
afternoon. Hopkins improves to 4-1 on the season, while Towson
falls to 0-3. Junior Colleen McCaffrey paced the Blue Jays' offense
with three goals.

Senior Brooke Foussadier, goal line extended, fed a cutting
McCaffrey, who scored on a low shot just 2:38 in as Hopkins took a
1-0 lead. Just 64 seconds later, junior Rachel Ballatori took a
pass from junior Candace Rossi and scored from in close. McCaffrey
pushed the lead to three at 7:01 and forced a Towson timeout when
she one-timed a pass from Ballatori past Towson's Mary Teeters.
Freshman Taylor D'Amore scored unassisted more than eight minutes
later when she rolled the crease and snuck one past Teeters.
Sophomore Monica Fischer closed out the scoring for the first half
to send the Blue Jays into the locker room with a 5-0 lead. Off a
restart on a Towson foul, Fischer dodged the right alley and scored
on a bounce shot with 10:29 to play in the half.

Coming out of the break, D'Amore pushed the lead to six with her
second of the afternoon. A goal line extended Rossi dished a short
pass to D'Amore, who spun around her defender and rifled a side-arm
shot past Teeters. Towson finally cut on the board with 4:08 gone
in the second half, cashing in after four consecutive free position
attempts. Kelly Custer scored what proved to be the Tigers' only
goal of the game to end Towson's scoring drought at 34:08.

Foussadier got that one back for the Blue Jays with a free
position goal of her own at 8:32. Just 16 seconds later, the Blue
Jays' lead was seven as McCaffrey won the draw and went right to
the cage, completing her hat trick to put Hopkins on top 8-1. It
was nearly nine minutes before the Blue Jays scored again, but they
got two quick ones. D'Amore added an assist to her two goals, when
from behind the goal she passed over the top to sophomore Katie
Duffey, who one-timed the pass for her fifth goal of the season.
Foussadier closed out the scoring for the game just 22 seconds
later thanks to some unselfish passing. Hopkins won the draw
following Duffey's goal and Fischer passed to a wide-open
Foussadier on the door step, who faked high and went low to make it
a 10-1 game.

Seven different Blue Jays scored in the win and six of those had
multi-point games. McCaffrey's hat trick led the way, while
Foussadier (2g, 1a) and D'Amore (2g, 1a) also had three-point days.
Sophomore Cosette Larash finished with eight saves while allowing
just the one goal in the win. While junior Alyssa Kildare led the
Hopkins defense with four caused turnovers, two ground balls and
four draw controls. Teeters finished with 11 saves for the Tigers
in the loss.

The Blue Jays held the Tigers scoreless for 32:26, the first
time Hopkins has shut out an opponent for an entire half since a
12-1 win over Drexel on March 31, 2010. The one goal allowed is
also the fewest the Blue Jays have allowed since that win over the
Dragons. The win snaps a two-game losing streak to the Tigers and
is the Blue Jays first win at Johnny Unitas Stadium since April 30,
2007.

Hopkins returns to action on Wednesday, March 16 as the
ninth-ranked Georgetown Hoyas visit Homewood Field. The game will
be televised on ESPNU with opening draw slated for 6:00 pm.